COTE D’IVOIRE / ELECTIONS

Municipal and regional elections took place on Sunday, 21 April, across Côte D'Ivoire. National security forces worked alongside United Nations peacekeepers of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) to provide a secure electoral environment. UNOCI

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:41
• Production Date: 22 April 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS OPERATIONS IN COTE D'IVOIRE - UNOCI
• Subject Topical: ELECTIONS
• Geographic Subject: COTE D'IVOIRE
• MAMS Id: U130422e

Description

STORY: COTE D’IVOIRE / ELECTIONS
TRT: 2.41
SOURCE: UNOCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 21 APRIL 2013, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, UN patrol cars
2. Wide shot, UNPOL securing streets
3. Med shot, briefing between UNPOL and local police
4. Wide shot, UNPOL entering a polling center
5. Wide shot, UNPOL outside the building where the voting is taking place within the polling center
6. Wide shot, inside the building where the voting is taking place.
7. Med shot, electoral worker talking with a voter
8. Close up, ballots, plus stickers
9. Med shot, voter enters the building where the voting is taking place
10. Med shot, a voter voting
11. Wide shot, voters lined up to vote
12. SOUNDBITE (French) electoral worker:
“There is [UNINTELLIGIBLE] but there was a delay in arriving equipment
but for now all our hope is to have the elections, which reflect our hope.”
13. Wide shot, UNPOL outside the polling center
14. Wide shot, UNPOL walking the street
15. Med shot, electoral poster of a candidate in Port Pouet
16. Wide shot, UNPOL talking among themselves outside on the street
17. Various, UNPOL outside on the street
18. Wide shot, UNPOL walking into polling center and talking with the local police
19. Various, polling station
20. Wide shot, UNPOL in polling station
21. SOUNDBITE (French) independent electoral commission agent:
“The participation rate is very low and there is nobody in the polling centres. There are not enough people.”
22. Wide shot, UNPOL cars lined up on the street
23: Wide shot, UNPOL cars enter the polling centre
24. SOUNDBITE (French) female voter:
“I come to vote this morning and went into the polling station number 4, and I present my ID card, and they told me that I had already voted and I could not vote.”
25. Wide shot, UNPOL enters the polling center with voters
26. SOUNDBITE (French) UNPOL officer:
“I was told that there are suspicious persons inside so I came to see myself .
And if it’s the case, I will ask the local force to identify them. And those who have already voted should move from the place.”
27. Wide shot, polling centre

Storyline

Municipal and regional elections took place on Sunday, 21 April, across Côte D'Ivoire. National security forces worked alongside United Nations peacekeepers of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) to provide a secure electoral environment.

The aim was to avoid the violence that followed presidential elections in November of 2010, where then incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, refused to concede defeat at the polls to the challenger, Alassane Ouattara, who had obtained the most votes.

The municipal and regional elections were organized by the Ivorian Independent Electoral Commission. The UN mission in the country did not have a mandate from the Security Council to supervise the local electoral process, unlike previous presidential and parliamentary elections, but did provide significant security support. It also provided technical advise through UNOCI’s election cell.

Parliamentary elections were held in 2011.